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# Do you know that the world will end when Betelgeuse dies...
which is in the near future...

Astronomically Near Future

1000000 years or so.
(I helped save b3ta! Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Thu 14 Dec 2006, 19:34, archived)
# I feel insignificant
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Thu 14 Dec 2006, 19:35, archived)
# only if we're directly along its axis
eta carinae is a much more likely threat
(I helped save b3ta! urbane legend i have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Thu 14 Dec 2006, 19:38, archived)
# no... when it explodes it will be in all directions... sending out a massive ball of gamma and x rays killing all the squirrels.
Orion's left shoulder will kill us all :(
(I helped save b3ta! Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Thu 14 Dec 2006, 19:40, archived)
# no, betelgeuse will merely appear as an enormously bright supernova
only if we are aligned with its axis will any significant amount gamma radiation reach us. if that is so, we are doomed.
(I helped save b3ta! urbane legend i have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Thu 14 Dec 2006, 19:44, archived)
# i expect the return of the big hanky before that time


(I helped save b3ta! pzyko Query failed., Thu 14 Dec 2006, 19:40, archived)